[sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed
I have this idea while reading an article about OLPC published on businessweek* They talked, among other things, about a boy who seemed to think Internet was inside the XO-1, and I thought it could be a good idea to have this boy's village or town in google maps so he could learn in a simple glance where in the world he is, the size and proportions of his hometown, his country and the world itself. This would help children assimilate better those concepts, as they have as a starting point something they know very well, and they could see what they are being taught. This would make also their imagination go wild. As google is a member of the OLPC foundation, they could at least integrate aerial photos easily if they're available. Governments could use helicopters or airplanes to take those pics. There's no OpenGL yet in sugar, and the application (google earth) relays heavily in internet traffic, but internet prices would eventually be cheap and this could be useful to teach some concepts. It's just an idea, I wanted to share it before I forget it, it happens to me everytime. *http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_24/b4088048125608.htm ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
[sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed
I have this idea while reading an article about OLPC published on businessweek* They talked, among other things, about a boy who seemed to think Internet was inside the XO-1, and I thought it could be a good idea to have this boy's village or town in google maps so he could learn in a simple glance where in the world he is, the size and proportions of his hometown, his country and the world itself. This would help children assimilate better those concepts, as they have as a starting point something they know very well, and they could see what they are being taught. This would make also their imagination go wild. As google is a member of the OLPC foundation, they could at least integrate aerial photos easily if they're available. Governments could use helicopters or airplanes to take those pics. There's no OpenGL yet in sugar, and the application (google earth) relays heavily in internet traffic, but internet prices would eventually be cheap and this could be useful to teach some concepts. It's just an idea, I wanted to share it before I forget it, it happens to me everytime. *http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_24/b4088048125608.htm ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed
can the XO can access Google maps? I don't have an XO-1, but Google Maps works in the browse activity under sugar-jhbuild. Beware: there's people who are afraid of Big Brother and might mind their villages being in the public's eye. (Apparently the Germans have some law about that) There's people also afraid of being photographed, they said the camera steals their soul. That's just a cultural issue, it's just a picture, albeit a very descriptive and informative one. Security through obscurity never works. Urko ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] Collaboration in an activity
I've implemented some sort of collaboration on my activity. Code is in the repository (http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/assimilate;a=summary) Whenever users are collaborating, everything works more or less, signals are send and received and all partners have the same content on their instances, but if a user goes offline, what's the best way to keep content in sync when she joins again the activity? Is there a way to store signals+data somewhere? I would like to know the best approach before I start coding anything in this regard, merging two async-ed activities seems a daunting task. Thanks again for all the help, I've ended up using D-Bus tubes to send the file at the beginning. Cheers, Urko Fyi: This is what Write does. It sends binary data over D-Bus tubes, which sometimes (on the initial join, just like in your situation) happens to be an entire word processing file. We never send Python objects over the D-Bus tube. Marc ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
[sugar] Collaboration in an activity
Hi, Before I start coding any collaboration implementation for my activity, I would like to know which approach is best for what I'm willing to do. In my scenario, if a user joins an activity for the first time, she downloads the file, which in my case is an SQLite database. Next time, she would ask for new content to fill/merge her database, so I was thinking about sending query results. For sending files I've seen that stream tubes are used in Read activity, and many examples use D-Bus tubes (Write, Web, Connect...) for sending python objects. Can I send binary files using D-Bus tubes? Is it possible to send any python object through dbus? I could send the database in some more complex python data type. Best regards, Urko. ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] jhbuild issues
I've build it from scratch on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (64bit). Compilation went flawlessly, but there's no Journal and I need to replace a file in Ubuntu's system library (ticket #6827) to make it work. On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 04:14 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:13 PM, anthony taranto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. sugar-jhbuild run when i reun sugar-jhbuild run i get this: Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/voltron/proj/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/bin/sugar-she n module from main import main File /home/voltron/proj/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/sugar/s line 35, in module import view.Shell File /home/voltron/proj/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/sugar/s .py, line 38, in module from view.frame import frame File /home/voltron/proj/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/sugar/s /frame.py, line 30, in module from view.frame.activitiestray import ActivitiesTray File /home/voltron/proj/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/sugar/s /activitiestray.py, line 24, in module from sugar.graphics.tray import HTray File /home/voltron/proj/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/python2.5 sugar/graphics/tray.py, line 22, in module from sugar.graphics.palette import Palette, ToolInvoker File /home/voltron/proj/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/python2.5 sugar/graphics/palette.py, line 29, in module from sugar.graphics.icon import Icon File /home/voltron/proj/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/python2.5 sugar/graphics/icon.py, line 28, in module from sugar.graphics.palette import Palette, CanvasInvoker ImportError: cannot import name Palette This is a circular dep, I pushed a work around. Marco ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
